Relationship between Socio-economic Characteristics of Beneficiary Farmers and their Attitude Towards National Horticulture Mission

The group approach has made a paramount contribution to the poverty alleviation initiative in developing countries remarkably in Asia. In India, the approach of the Self-Help Group (SHG) is more fruitful than any other group approaches. Self-help groups are informal interrelation of individuals who choose to join together to find ways of ameliorating their way of life. This paper presents the results of the study conducted during the year 2018-19 in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat, India to determine the relative influence of predictor variables in explaining self-help group dynamics Effectiveness. The step-wise regression (multiple regressions) analysis was carried out to predict the extent of group dynamics effectiveness influenced by independent variables. A total of 37.10 per cent variation is explained by attitude towards SHG. However, attitude towards SHG along with annual income explains 42.90 per cent variation and attitude towards SHG, annual income and market facility accounted for 45.20 per cent variation in group dynamics effectiveness and all thirteen independent variables considered for the study together were contributing 48.60 per cent variation.